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Comment · 1 month ago

The lockup period is still in effect (for now) but reductions to index inclusion rules expose the stock to passive vehicles like ETFs that are obligated to have a specific allocation on the stock. So now there is an essentially guaranteed demand established by the time the lockup period expires. NASDAQ allows mega-cap companies into the NASDAQ-100 after 15 days which is much shorter than the lockup period for 80% of the SpaceX shares.

15 days - Pump: get into indexes -> ETFs obligated to buy shares

After - Dump: insiders cash out benefiting from the price premium of demand for shares from ETFs

Comment · 2 months ago

Thanks for the extra context!

Comment · 2 months ago

No expert - but from what I've heard, Florida and Texas are constrained for efficent polar (North/South) orbit launches due to restrictions over populated areas. Whereas Louisiana has the Gulf to the south so no/fewer restrictions to worry about.

Comment · 3 months ago

Thank you for your work! I was looking forward to the stateless update.

Comment · 5 months ago

I agreed that AI will enable entrepreneurship but yes everyone will continue to lose ground to the owners of compute.

Comment · 5 months ago

Parent didn't say they liked it; I'm reading it as an expression of concern (that I share).

Comment · 5 months ago

Nice thought, but who controls the production (AI Compute) that enables this lifestyle? Those who control the production will control the non-workers.

Comment · 5 months ago

I agree in the short term. But in the long term, the owners of the compute will become disgustingly rich without a wealth tax, nationalization, or local AI becoming competitive and ubiquitous. There are still problems to solve; the alternative is an absolute oligarchy.

Comment · 5 months ago

Tokens are not fungible for hosted models but there are resellers like Github Copilot and OpenRouter. These allow you to purchase capacity and choose which hosted models to burn your tokens on. Obviously there is some margin being taken in order to provide this flexibility, but there's probably some offset with volume contracts.

Comment · 5 months ago

https://opencode.ai/

Comment · 6 months ago

A parent wanting to record a fleeting moment with their child without the potential distraction of pulling out a phone or other camera.

This alone doesn't outweigh all of the negative uses, but I would argue that it's reasonable and legitimate.

Comment · 1 year ago

I wonder why this is on HN and not Reddit.

Comment · 1 year ago

This is where this belongs.

Comment · 2 years ago

Sounds like parent was using async to mean that JS has single-threaded concurrent functions by default.

Disclaimer: I'm just the messenger here so you might hate what follows, the community is choosing the words.

Concurrency as a keyword is increasingly being used to differentiate single-threaded event handling from parallel processing (threads). As long as event handling is quick enough, it can give the illusion of parallel processing. And in some cases it can outperform parallel processing because the cost of context switching between events can be lower than context switching between threads. See https://medium.com/@caophuc799/nginx-architecture-and-why-ca...

The async keyword, in practice, simplifies the callback boilerplate required to handle the event model. When used in communication, async is increasingly being used as a word to describe "Single-threaded Concurrent Functions Built On Hidden Event Handling", because there is no succinct way of saying STCFBOHEH in English.

So: JS has async/STCFBOHEH/context-switching on its functions by default whereas Java's functions are (by default) executed in order without async/STCFBOHEH/context-switching.